• bncvdg [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    The ban wouldn't get rid of it. It would just end up effectively restricting development of the technology to intelligence agencies and corporations instead of it floating around in the public. The activist are not forcing lawmakers to care(lol), the ruling class recognizes that there is an advantage to establishing a monopoly on fakes in a medium everyone still views as legitimate.

    • TossedAccount [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      the ruling class recognizes that there is an advantage to establishing a monopoly on fakes in a medium everyone still views as legitimate.

      This is what makes me suspect that some of Trump's and Biden's more sterile, polished speeches might have been deepfaked, if speechwriters and teleprompters didn't have at least as much explanatory power.

      • SerLava [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Nah you can still tell at this point

        Once you can't tell, I suspect people will use special internet connected cameras that validate frames with a secure server or something, so that you can check for authenticity. CHUDs will simply say the authentication service is a liberal hoax, but we will all be able to tell.

        • warped_fungus [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          How do we know we haven't passed the line of being unable to tell? What if poorly made ones are made on purpose to shake off suspicion that the tech is improving faster than we know 🤔

          • SerLava [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Well, then we will have fake videos until the public version of deepfake gets to that level, and is used to demonstrate impossible stuff undetectably. Then the magic cameras will become widespread.

      • LoMeinTenants [any]
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        4 years ago

        No. To make a statement like that right now feels like Trump apologia.

        There's definitely potential for it, but why would they consider it when these politicians are functioning exactly as intended?

        • TossedAccount [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          The argument for Trump having been deepfaked is precisely that they would have needed it to pacify his base because he went rogue by continuing to encourage the January 6 gathering right up until shit got real and Twitter banned his ass.

      • jabrd [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Even if the technology was there for it (which it very well could be, the govt is usually 10 years ahead of the public technology wise), there just doesn't seem like a big enough payoff to risk getting exposed just to have one of these senile fucks not trip over their own words during a briefing. Maybe the CIA has some deepfakes put aside for rainy days of national leaders stepping down to ease up their coups, but I doubt anything's being rolled out for that sort of thing